The book offers a detailed critique of the economy-of-derivation
model of grammar that has emerged within the framework of Chomsky's
Minimalist Program. It looks at the conceptual and computational
complexity problems as well as the empirical consequences of both
global and local economy principles. The book compares the
economy-of-derivation model with a local constraint model of
grammar that does not invoke conditions on sets of derivations or
on possible operations in a derivation. It argues that the pure
local constraint model of grammar avoids the complexity problems
resulting from economy-of-derivation principles and provides a more
satisfactory explanation of the linguistic facts that economy
theorists have cited in support of their approach. The local
constraint model also allows for a more natural and empirically
well-motivated grammatical architecture than the one postulated by
the Minimalist Program.
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